Author: John R. Hall
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134651252
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 251
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Apocalypse Observed is about religious violence. By analyzing five of the most notorious cults of recent years, the authors present a fascinating and revealing account of religious sects and conflict. Cults covered include: * the apocalypse at Jonestown * the Branch Davidians at Waco * the violent path of Aum Shinrikyo * the mystical apocalypse of the Solar Temple * the mass suicide of Heaven's Gate. Through comparative case studies and in-depth analysis, the authors show how religious violence can erupt not simply from the beliefs of the cult followers or the personalities of their leaders, but also from the way in which society responds to the cults in its midst.
Author: Phillip Charles Lucas
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135889015
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 382
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New Religious Movements in the 21st Century is the first volume to examine the urgent and important issues facing new religions in their political, legal and religious contexts in global perspective. With essays from prominent NRM scholars and usefully organized into four regional areas covering Western Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia, Russia and Eastern Europe, and North and South America, as well as a concluding section on the major themes of globalization and terrorist violence, this book provides invaluable insight into the challenges facing religion in the twenty-first century. An introduction by Tom Robbins provides an overview of the major issues and themes discussed in the book.
Author: Charles Selengut
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN: 1461642922
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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Charles Selengut's multidsciplinary approach to understanding the causes and effects of religious violence around the globe.
Author: Veronica Chater
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393073548
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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Growing up Catholic in a family where the reforms of Vatican II are seen as the work of Satan. It is 1972, and Veronica Chater's parents believe that Vatican II's liberalization has corrupted the Catholic Church, inviting the Holy Chastisement—an apocalypse prophesied by three shepherds in Fatima, Portugal. To spare his family this horror, Veronica's father quits the highway patrol, sells everything, and moves the family of eight from California to an isolated village near Fatima. But Portugal is no Catholic utopia, and the family schleps home penniless to join the nascent Catholic counterrevolution: attending the Latin Mass in truck garages and abandoned buildings, serving meals to religious soldiers, breeding a new member of the faithful every year. As Veronica comes of age on the fringes of the American Dream, she rebels against a fanaticism that forbids anything modern—clothes, movies, or music. This is the story, both sad and funny, of a family torn apart by religion and brought back together in spite of the injuries it inflicted on itself.
Author: David M. Newman
Publisher: Pine Forge Press
ISBN: 1412961505
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 409
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This carefully edited companion anthology provides provocative, eye-opening examples of the practice of sociology in a well-edited, well-designed, and affordable format. It includes short articles, chapters, and excerpts that examine common everyday experiences, important social issues, or distinct historical events that illustrate the relationship between the individual and society. The new edition will provide more detail regarding the theory and/or history related to each issue presented. The revision will also include more coverage of global issues and world religions.
Author: John L. Shinn
Publisher:
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Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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Author: Leon Festinger
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1625589778
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 215
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The study reported in this volume grew out of some theoretical work, one phase of which bore specifically on the behavior of individuals in social movements that made specific (and unfulfilled) prophecies. We had been forced to depend chiefly on historical records to judge the adequacy of our theoretical ideas until we by chance discovered the social movement that we report in this book. At the time we learned of it, the movement was in mid-career but the prophecy about which it was centered had not yet been disconfirmed. We were understandably eager to undertake a study that could test our theoretical ideas under natural conditions. That we were able to do this study was in great measure due to the support obtained through the Laboratory for Research in Social Relations of the University of Minnesota. This study is a project of the Laboratory and was carried out while we were all members of its staff. We should also like to acknowledge the help we received through a grant-in-aid from the Ford Foundation to one of the authors, a grant that made preliminary exploration of the field situation possible.
Author: Anatoly Fomenko
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781975648077
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 214
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US research of earth-moon mechanics by late NASA astrophysicist Robert Newton leads Russian mathematicians to a breakthrough in the chronology of The Revelations of St John. The astronomical aspect of The Apocalypse stayed hidden for centuries. 'The Apocalypse as seen by Astronomy' has resurrected the astrological, i.e; astronomical ideas contained in The Apocalypse and extracted from it the precise date of its composition on the Isle of Patmos! St Augustin was quite right saying; "..beware of mathematicians, especially when they speak the truth! ".The Apocalypse - The Book of Revelation is the only apocalyptic document in the New Testament. It does not refer to actual people or events but is an allegory of the spiritual path and the ongoing struggle between good and evil, but contains nevertheless clues relative to its composition. An enormous body of learned research, centuries of heated discussions by different clerical schools about the origins, time and place of writing of The Revelations of St John has literally buried precious bits of verifiable astronomic data.The only moment on the time axis when the constellations of the night sky visible from the Isle Patmos correspond to the verbal Zodiac contained in the Revelations date to October 1486 A.D. and not to 56 A.D.! Note that the very text of the Revelations was for the first time included by Erasmus in the New Testament he printed in 1515 A.D in Geneva. This text of the Revelations was provided to Erasmus by Johan Reuchlin, his predecessor, founder of Hebraism and master astrologist.A significant part of mediaeval literature contains astrological texts, especially astronomical tractates up until Kepler's age and even after that. The existence of several competing astrological schools led to the use of lavish symbolism by mediaeval astrologers, which makes it hard to speak of unified astrological definitions. Furthermore, each school developed its own linguistic and symbolic system. However, we shall soon see that many countries have surprisingly enough used a more or less uniform astrological symbolic system - for zodiacal constellations, for example. This can mean that astrology was born relatively recently, in the epoch when the means of communication between the astronomers of different countries had already been developed well enough to provide for regular information exchange and a similar astrological language - in Europe and in Egypt, for instance. It would be expedient to remind the reader that the modern names for planets have been introduced by astrologers. The names for days of the week in such languages as English, French, and German are also in direct relation to astrological concepts.'The Apocalypse as seen by Astronomy' is just one of the facets of. New Chronology theory, Dr. Fomenko et al as scientists are ready to recognize at sight the alleged mistakes of New Chronology theory, to repent and to retract if and only if:- radiocarbon dating methods or dendrochronology pass the clear anonymous 'black box' tests;- astronomic data refutes their results on solar eclipses;- it is proven irrefutably that Robert Newton (NASA astrophysicist) was wrong calling 'ancient' Ptolemy the greatest con man in history in his 'Crime of Claudius Ptolemy' ; At present historians heed the prescient advice of Saint Augustin and are not willing to apply to history the toolbox of exact sciences. Beware of the Occam's razor, as their beautiful web of lies is too fragile! The radiocarbon dating labs run their very costly tests only if is the sample to be dated is accompanied with an idea of age pronounced by historians on basis of...subjective..mmm...gutfeeling and the history books they have been writing for the last 400 years. Radiocarbon labs happily bill for their fiddling and fine tuning with C14 hardware to get the dates 'to order' of historians. Circulus Vicious is perfect.
Author:
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Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 892
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Author: Christopher Wordsworth (bp. of Lincoln)
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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